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Maybe Big Brother really is watching
In California, child protection services recently took Nate Tseglin, a 17-year-old autistic boy, out of his home after a teacher filed a complaint about the arm braces he wore to keep him from scratching himself (such behavior is not uncommon among autistics). The California government forcibly removed Nate from his home and he is currently institutionalized at a hospital, labeled a danger to himself and others.
But that is not the most frightening part of the story. The most frightening part is that the caseworkers told the Tseglins, who are Russian-Jewish immigrants, that they had “the wrong set of beliefs” and for that their son should be removed from their care.
This is an extremely scary example of the government intervening where it has no business whatsoever. The Tseglins say they have provided a home for their son, have sought therapy for his autism, and have taken measures to see that he does not harm himself. If all of this is true, the state had no right to take Nate from them. And they absolutely had no right to cite the Tseglins’ religious beliefs as cause to remove Nate from his home. Ilya and Riva emigrated from Russia to escape an oppressive government. They should not have to experience it in America of all places. Happenings like this represent the first steps on the road to totalitarianism, and must be resisted by free people everywhere.
